PHOTOS: Celebrity sex scandals
By Susan King, Los Angeles Times staff
Before there was Roman Polanski, there was Errol Flynn and Fatty Arbuckle. Before David Letterman, there was Charlie Chaplin and Hugh Grant.
Celebrity sex scandals have been around for as long as there have been celebrities -- yes, even before TMZ and Perez Hilton -- so the recent arrest of Polanski relating to his having sex with a 13-year-old girl and Letterman’s confession of having sex with female members of his staff are just the latest in a long and sometimes sordid history.
Here’s a look back at sex scandals that rocked Hollywood ... (STR, AFP/Getty Images)
One of the Brat Pack heartthrobs of the 1980s found himself involved in a sex scandal over a videotape made in 1988 of him having sex with two girls, one of whom was just 16. The tape was filmed in Atlanta during the Democratic National Convention. Lowe had met the teen at a bar, where she apparently lied about her age.
Lowe entered a rehab clinic for alcohol and sex addiction and later made fun of his problems on “Saturday Night Live.” Married for 18 years and the father of two sons, Lowe rebounded from the scandal, starring on the
Though now settled down and married to his third wife -- he’s also the father of five -- Sheen not only battled drug problems in the 1990s, he also battled sexual demons.
In 1995, a woman sued him, stating that he had struck her in the head several times when she refused to have sex with him. Later it was revealed during the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss that Sheen had shelled out some $50,000 for ordering her call girls more than two dozen times.
